Nearly 4,000 feet of newsreel film on Albert...

MISSING FILM.

March 7, 1990

- COLUMBIA, S.C. — MISSING FILM. Nearly 4,000 feet of newsreel film on Albert Einstein that was part of the University of South Carolina's collection fell from a delivery truck and has been missing for a week, officials say. ''From a historical standpoint, it is absolutely irreplaceable,'' said Don McCallister, assistant archivist for the university's News Film Library. The film, which has historical value to researchers, shows Einstein appearing at events in the 1930s. The university was sending the film to Audio Plus Video International in Northvale, N.J., so it could be copied onto videotape for a French filmmaker, McCallister said. On Feb. 27, a delivery truck carrying the film left the Federal Express office in Columbia. A few blocks down the road, the driver realized the back door had opened. Federal Express workers searched the route but did not find the package.